Bag of Randomness

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  • I caught a Simpson’s last night where Marge was making a school lunch where she placed a sandwich in a non-sealable sandwich bag and did that twist-turn-flip-flopping-spinning thing to close it up.  Man, I haven’t thought about that in years, and remembering how fun that use to be.
  • General Norman Schwarzkopf was buried at West Point yesterday, which seemed quite fitting, considered he was schooled, taught, and married there, and his father is also buried nearby.  He actually died back on Dec 27 of last year, that seems like a long time between death and burial.
  • Texas Ranger shortstop Elvis Andrus got the day off yesterday because of muscle soreness due to a new tattoo.
  • Now that it’s March, we are just a month and a week away from a new episode of “Mad Men”.
  • Just as I was more in love with Dana Scully than Gillian Anderson, I’m more in love with Liz Lemon than Tina Fey.
  • Remember when Groupon was actually a cool thing?
  • I need to crack open a book.
  • I’ve been toying with the idea, again, of moving to a small town, and being able to tele-commute to work makes that a very doable thing.  I love big city life, but I don’t like the whole “keeping up with the Jones” aspect, but that’s probably just something I put on myself.  WifeGeeding and I are both from small towns, and one advantage that small town life has are that kids can participate in about anything.  For instance, if I went to a large high school, I would never had a chance to make the team on certain team sports. If a kid went to a big school, only so many can be a part of the football/basketball/baseball team, that really was never a problem where I grew up.  I spent some time looking at houses online at both of our hometowns, and I found a quaint looking house in my hometown, but I don’t know how I feel buying a house that’s about 90 years old.  It’s probably best just to sit back for a while and not make any quick decisions about this.
  • A great tea brewing chart for the perfect cup of six types of teas.
  • The manliest hanger a man can ever use.
  • For $5,000, this teacher let the Internet name her baby
  • Formica is turning 100 and they are bringing back some retro styles.
  • Homework assignment to compare Obama to Lenin or Stalin withdrawn 
  • Van ISD employee shot in leg during CHL training class – What’s kinda funny is that a few days earlier, WFAA reported that Van’s state representative said CHL hours should be cut from 10 to 4.
  • Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence are starring in another movie together?
  • Latest list of the world’s most admired companies – Three Texas companies are in the top 25, two of which are in DFW.
  • There’s been a lot of talk about Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer making employees who are working from home to now have to come into the office.  Heck, even as a work-from-home employee I don’t blame her, she’s trying to create a new culture, and I especially backed her when I read that a lot of those folks never logged into their VPN during working hours.
  • While listening to the radio, it was stated that India has the highest number of vegetarians but have a high rate of heart disease.
  • What the universe looks like from a non-fixed perspective
  • A sample test from Texas’ STARR exam, the one for 5th graders.
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